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Articles and photos added during
June 2010
Regular weekly Friday website updates commenced on April 1, 2011.
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June 14, 2010 - The week marks the first anniversary of the Hamden Fire Retirees' Association's website. Thanks to the generous contributions of photos and stories from dozens of HFD retirees and other fans of the website, in this first year we published over 700 photographs and 110 articles about past and present members of the Hamden Fire Department. So far we have had over 14,000 hits. We are staying connected and preserving our past.
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| June 1982 - Photo by John Tramontano (CLICK to enlarge) |
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| Gerry Dinneen joined the department in 1980. His contributions to the department during his brief career were considerable.
In 1982, before the advent of personal "camcorders," Gerry purchased his own video camera with a portable shoulder-pack VHS cassette recorder. He began taping various department-related activities, the first being a 1982 Halloween party at Co. 7.
On October 18, 1985, Gerry recorded the first Hamden Fire Department awards ceremony held during John Tramontano's tenure as chief, which inspired the department to acquire its own video equipment for making training videos and to preserve department events.
Gerry was a good firefighter and a great guy who was well liked by all. The department was stunned and saddened by Gerry's sudden death on Christmas Day 1985.
Posted 6/14/10
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May 15, 2010
The Hamden Fire Department recently conducted a rural water supply drill with five other area fire departments.
Posted 6/16/10
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| CLICK photo to view video |
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
CLICK on the photos of the Hamden apparatus below
to see where they are today - and what they look like.
CAUTION: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
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1951 Maxim 750 GPM
| 1968 S-Model Maxim 1000 GPM
| 1984 Pierce Dash
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| CLICK to see this engine today! |
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| CLICK to see one of these engines today! |
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| CLICK to see this engine today! |
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| June 1982 - Lt. Bill Coppola steps up into Engine 4, the 1973 Maxim "foam truck" (Photo by John Tramontano) |
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| 1951 Maxim 750 GPM Pumper - Hamden's First Postwar Apparatus (Photo courtesy of Chan Brainard) |
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Chief Raymond C. Spencer is pictured here with Pat Monahan of the O.B. Maxwell Co. and an unidentified driver. This exact location of this photo is unclear, but it is probably the driveway apron of Station 2. Station 2 would have been in the process of renovation in anticipation of the October 1951 closing of the Highwood station, and the Scott Street library is not built yet.
Records show that the 1951 Maxim 750 was delivered on August 7, 1951 but was insured as of the day before. See the COPY of the insurance letter below.
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| This letter courtesy of Paul Wetmore, Sr., when he was Supt. of Alarms and Apparatus (c. 1985-91) |
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| 1982 - Ff. John Corbett preparing to demonstrate CPR skills (Photo by John Tramontano) |
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